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Temporary Tables vs. Table Variables and Their Effect on SQL Server Performance
Follow an experiment and draw interesting conclusions on where and when to use temporary tables or table variables.
Report Solution Patterns and Recipes: Creating Sparklines
In the last of this three-part SQL Server Reporting Services recipe series, Wrox author Paul Turley shows how to create the graphics for word-size graphics that visualization pioneer Edward Tufte dubbed sparklines.
Visual FoxPro: Its Day Has Finally Come
If you thought the end of Visual FoxPro had already happened, then you are wrong. Its end is now.
Forging Transact SQL Code with CodeSmith
If you're haven't used CodeSmith for your TSQL coding yet, now's the time. This template-based code generator enables you to add fire-and-forget programming to your TSQL development.
SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition: The Little Engine That Can
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition provides relational database functionality for mobile and desktop applications through a lightweight and easily distributable engine. Take a look under the hood.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

How to use Visual Studio 2012 to Download Images from Websites
Learn how to use a for loop to loop through all of the images found on a web page and save them via the DownloadFile method of the WebClient object.

SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.


